Artifact: Release Plan

The Release Plan provides an in-depth guide for release of an application to production.

Work Product Kinds: Release Management Work Products, Release Management Work Products
Available States: Approved, Draft, Final

Relationships

Roles	Responsible: Release Manager	Modified By: Release Manager
Tasks	Input To:	Output From: Develop the Release Plan

Description

Main Description

The Release Plan provides details of the approach, schedule and details the system/application implementation. The Release Plan is closely related to the Implementation Plan.

The Release Plan is required for all new system/application implementations and for maintenance releases. The creation of the Release Plan should begin in the Planning Phase.

The Release Plan contains the following details, along with any assumptions, constraints, and risks:

Release Content
Release Schedule
Release Impacts
Release Notification

Illustrations

Templates	Release Plan Template

Tailoring

Impact of not having	The details of deployment are unclear, causing potential failure of the implementation.
Reasons for not needing	The level of complexity of the deployment does not warrant a full documentation of details.

Version and Release

Unified Life Cycle (ULC): 5.1, November 3, 2014
Phase Gates: 1.1, May 27, 2014
Process Engineering Process (PEP): 1.1, May 27, 2014